Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

Hello, friends. If you're looking for a major shakeup in terms of thinking about parenting and work, I think you're really going to enjoy this episode.

Neha Roush is the founder of Mother Untitled, a platform for

ambitious women leaning into family life. This platform focuses on women, work, parenting, and identity.

After deciding to pause her career after the birth of her second child, Neha quickly encountered

outdated stereotypes associated with being a stay-at-home mother,

and she wanted to do something about it. Her new book is The Power Pause, How to Plan a Career

Break After Kids, and Come Back Stronger Than Ever. It's a guide to career breaks after kids that rebrands

stay-at-home parenting for a new generation of women and families.

In this conversation, Neha and I talk about how to handle that,

What Do You Do, Question, Household Labor Visibility,

redefining success during a pause, positioning yourself to return to work, and more.

This conversation is expansive, and Neha had so much compassion, humility, and heart.

I loved talking to her. Let's get right to the conversation.

Welcome, Neha. I'm so happy to have you on the mic today. Hello. Hello. Thank you for having me.

This is a delight. I feel like I already know you from having read your book, but I would

love to introduce you to my listeners, of course, and I want to dive right in with some

questions. I actually want to start by reading a quote from your book. You wrote,

A career pause is not a life pause. You may have put the day job version of your life on hold,

temporarily or otherwise, so that you could lean into motherhood and shift your focus to your family.

But as we've discussed in these pages, this phase is for building community and connections,

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